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To: RAT Patrol
Why is "freedom of people to make their own laws" a higher value than "freedom of people to make their own decisions?"
30 posted on 06/26/2003 12:05:20 PM PDT by Nick5
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To: Nick5
Because we do not each have our own islands. There are fundamental individual rights that cannot be infringed. No one claimed that sodomy was a fundamental right. Freedom to our founders meant freedom of the people to make their own laws as long as they didn't infringe on fundamental individual rights.

Sodomy is so basically and obviously unnatural that it's amazing we are even discussing it. One quick look at the human body shows how we were created (or evolved - if you prefer a non-Declaration of Independence term) to have sex. With poop-sex (other than the obvious "two plugs, no outlet" thing), you cannot kiss while doing it; you cannot embrace while doing it; one party must injure the other party to do it (my mom used to work at a motel and she said the sheets were always a disgusting mess after gay men rented a room); genitals are obviously not joined together, etc..

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." -Patrick Henry

41 posted on 06/26/2003 12:24:48 PM PDT by RAT Patrol (Congress can give one American a dollar only by first taking it away from another American. -W.W.)
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